Re: info missing in output of declare -a in 4.4.x

[L A Walsh]

On 2/16/2019 4:57 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:21:25 -0800
>     From:        L A Walsh <bash@tlinx.org>
>     Message-ID:  <5C67ABE5.1030407@tlinx.org>
>
>   |     Thought about that....restarted a fresh shell.  Same same.
>   | At least I know it's supposed to...
>
> It isn't just BASH_ALIASES - you'll see the same from lots of
> other dynamic variables.
>   
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Woe!  That's what threw me -- it says empty, but it isn't.
> Try actually accessing an element, as in ...
>
>
> On occasion, the output from declare will show all the
> aliases in BASH_ALIASES but I have no idea what sequence of
> commands, of state of the universe, causes that to happen.
>   
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AND -- just did it now, it doesn't even show BASH_ALIASES, but
I know I have aliases defined.  Weird!

So it really is a bug of some sort, not that I use BASH ALIASES
for anything.  Was going to, but ...  and you're right, lots of
things aren't showing there.